• WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    • lacks any specificity (what organs? what animals?).

    • expects the reader to believe that any lab in this country can get results back fast enough that you’d get a conclusive answer next day.

    • scientists can just look at some miscellaneous organs and determine how their owner died apparently.

    • fails to properly gesture at a target minority.

    • call to action is just look into it please.

    • transparently the anti-Haitian panic from US politics transplanted over here.

    0/10, shoddiest moral panic I’ve seen in a while, the Tory party really is slipping.

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      Apart from the fact she’s probably trying to dogwhistle here, I’m pretty confident she has no trouble eating animals she doesn’t consider pets. Would she then apply the same logic to herself? I’m calling on the Home Secretary of UK to look into this, if she’s eating dead animal bodies or secretions what else is she capable of?

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        That literally does just look like what people do when hunting if they aren’t interested in doing anything with the innards, it’s simpler to get everything out right away so that there’s no risk of contamination.

        I’d say that assuming this is near a regular walking route its definitely some extremely bad manners from whoever did it in that case though. It’s one thing to leave stuff out where it’s safe to assume other animals will get to it, but near where regular people walk is nasty.

        Apparently there isn’t supposed to be hunting around there, but the alternative scenario in that case surely would be that some other animal carried it there or whatever. What sort of supposed satanic ritual just coincidentally leaves a set of internal organs that look identical to when a hunter is trying not to puncture anything and get nasty organ stuff all over?

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      I think this kind of anti-African panic has been long simmering in the UK too, I recall reading about a 2002 case where the remains of a young black boy were discovered in the Thames, and the “loony” opinion was that it was satanists, while the measured and reasonable opinion printed in shit like the Telegraph was that it was probably “African witch doctors”

      Aside from that, the organs in the attached photo just actually look intact and relatively unremarkable aside from not being inside of an animal, surely the only thing you could test for in that case would be if stress hormones or similar are built up, which could be any kind of pain and stress, or like if they find weird poison in a stomach?

  • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netB
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    I remember my local community going on a witch hunt because they found like a stone or a birdskull or something wrapped in a surah page, and people were calling it black magic and a curse and such. Turns out it was just an old algerian good luck charm.